How long does it take to read Ordeal by Innocence?
Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie takes about 4 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1958. 252 pages, about 69,300 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 104 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in a scandalous murder trial. It ended in the conviction of Jacko Argyle. The victim was Jacko's own mother, and to make matters worse, he died in prison. But the young man's innocence means that someone else killed the Argyle matriarch, and would certainly kill again to remain in the shadows. Shaded in the moral ambiguity of murder, the provocative psychological puzzler of guilt, vengeance, and blood secrets is among Agatha Christie's personal favorites.
Subjects: Detectives, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Judicial error, Murder, Investigation
